The Texture of Images The Relic Book in Late-Medieval Religiosity and Early Modern Aesthetics (Library of the Written Word)

Textures of Images presents for the first time a fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. The author brings into focus the specific mediality and aesthetics of this kind of printed books between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. The Texture of Images: The Relic Book in Late-Medieval Religiosity and Early Modern Aesthetics 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Preface to the English Edition 10 Acknowledgements 11 Translator's Note 13 Key German Terms 14 List of Illustrations 15 Abbreviations 26 1 Relic Books 26 2 Secondary Literature 26 Introduction 28 1 Relic Books issues of Genre and Classification 28 2 The State of Scholarship 35 3 The Aims of this Study 37 Part 1: The Diversification of the Genre 40 1 Mimesis as Politics 42 1 The Title Page of the Nuremberg Relic Book 45 2 The Introductory Text 47 3 Processional Sections and Epilogue 50 4 The Organization of the Book 58 5 Hans Mair's New Edition of 1493 commission or Free Enterprise? 65 6 Excursus the Manuscript of 1458 66 7 The Book as Pictogram of the City 69 8 The Motivation of the Book's Commissioners 77 9 The Self-Privileging of the Citizens 83 2 Competition between Cities and Printers 87 1 The Basic Type and Layout of the Bamberg Relic Book 88 2 Competition between Cities 93 3 Competition between Printers 103 3 Speculating on Similarity 158 1 The Preface of the Würzburg Relic Book 161 2 The Sequence of the Relics An Open Problem? 163 3 Speculating on Similarity in the Text The Copied Intercessory Prayers 166 4 Speculating on Similarity in the Image 170 5 Hans Mair Printer in His Own Name 172 4 Familiar Means - New Piety 176 1 Preface and the Calendar of Indulgences 181 2 The Location of the Event 183 3 "Is Clearly Displayed in Image and Word" 186 4 The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen 194 5 The Saint's Martyrdom and the Reader's Own Death 196 6 From Didactics to Endowment 202 7 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back The New Title Page 205 5 Aesthetic Enhancement 210 1 Lucas Cranach The Art of Court and Book 212 2 The Wittenberg Relic Book 218 3 Shifting Statements A Comparison between the B-Edition and the A-Edition 242 4 Model, Copy and Aesthetic Sublimation 254 5 Functional Aspects 273 6 The Relic Book as Stage Mask: the Media Staging of Social Climbing and the Accumulation of Salvation 281 1 The Commissioner of the Manuscript 284 2 The Starting Point for the Endowment 285 3 The Structure of the Manuscript 290 4 Reference Values 305 7 Troy, Rome, Halle: history and Genealogy 342 1 The Artists of the Halle Relic Book 344 2 Exquisitely Archaic or Exclusive the Title Page 345 3 Troy, Rome, Halle Albrecht Dürer's Engraving 349 4 The Donors Are in the Picture portraits and Coats of Arms - The Beginning and the End 357 5 The Introduction 360 6 The Organization of the Book 362 7 Fidelity to and Distance from the Object strategies of Realization 381 8 The Fine Art of Trumping 397 8 The Fine Art of Trumping 397 Part 2: Synthesis of a Genre 398 8 The Mediality of the Relic Book 400 1 "diser maß und gestalt" text and Reality 400 2 Autonomy and Aesthetics of Reproduction 410 3 Analogy versus Genealogy the Relic Book as Precursor of Collection and Exhibition Catalogues 418 9 The Texture of the Book 428 1 The Realm of Possibilities Social Compensation, Didactics, Memorial Object and Objet d'art 428 2 The Image as Genuine Narrative 433 3 Interaction of Image and Text 434 4 The Commissioners of Relic Books 435 5 The Book as Realm of Piety 436 6 The Book as Realm of Mediality 436 7 Texture 437 Appendix 1 Catalogue of Relic Books 438 Appendix 2 Bamberg Relic Books: Comparison of Distribution and Number of Reliquaries in All Editions 487 Appendix 3 Bamberg Relic Books: Comparison of the Emendations in the Editions by Hans Mair, 1493/1495 491 Appendix 4 Würzburg Relic Book: List of New Woodcuts 493 Appendix 5 Wittenberg Relic Book: Changes between Edition A and Edition B 495 Appendix 6 Vienna and Hall Relic Books: Comparison of Liturgical Chants 497 Appendix 7 Hall Relic Book: Index of Headings 499 Appendix 8 Hall Relic Book: Distribution of Woodcuts in the Manuscript 515 Appendix 9 Libellus demonstrativus (c. 1517) 521 Appendix 10 Indulgentiae ecclesiae metropolitanae Magdeburgensis 523 Bibliography 526 Index 569 This study is the first fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. Printed relic books represent, both by image and text, precious reliquaries, which were presented to the faithful audience during special liturgical feasts, the display of relics. This study brings into focus the specific aesthetics of these relic books and explores the immense influence that patrons had on figuration as well as on the forms of these books. The analysis focuses on the interaction of image and text as manifestation of authenticity. This book then contributes to clarifying the complex medial role of printing with movable type in its early period and offers a novel interpretation of the cultural significance of artefacts in the Renaissance. This book is a translation of Die Textur des Bildes: Das Heiltumsbuch im Kontext religiöser Medialität des Spätmittelalters (De Gruyter, 2013) "This study is the first fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. Printed relic books represent, both by image and text, precious reliquaries, which were presented to the faithful audience during special liturgical feasts, the display of relics. This study brings into focus the specific aesthetics of these relic books and explores the immense influence that patrons had on figuration as well as on the forms of these books. The analysis focuses on the interaction of image and text as manifestation of authenticity. This book then contributes to clarifying the complex medial role of printing with movable type in its early period and offers a novel interpretation of the cultural significance of artefacts in the Renaissance"-- Provided by publisher